The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-04-08
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily NswA
WASHINGTON NOTES.

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ments for the use Of the Yarmouth plsnta-
ton in Louisiana for experiments in cane
sugar making by the diffusion process.
CONSIDERABLE Improvement was reported
in the condition OF Recorder Trotter 1t
Washington and his physicians are quite
hopeful Of his recovery.
In the Presidents mail the other day was
q letter postmarked Brooklyn, N. Y, con-
tanning Q $500 gold certificate and note
saying: 1.-THE money is for custom house
duty" It was sent to the Treasury De-
partment and placed to the credit OF 'con-
science"
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL MONT
GoMERY has decided that Indians who have
received less land than is provided for
in the Severalty act are entitled to suf-
ficicnt more to make the entire quantity al
lowed
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas has issued .
circular to postmasters urging them to
commend the special delivery system to the
people as worthy of confidence.
THE President has directed the allotment
of lands in severalty to the Indians ON
the Warm Springs reservation in Ore
gon. This is the first action taken under
the Indian Severalty act which was passed
by the last Congress.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS, of the General
Land Office, has created Q contest board to
examine and decide all contests in the pre-
cmption public land division.
CHARLES s. FAIRCHILD has been appointed
to succeed Manning as Secretary Of the
Treasury. He had already acted for con-
siderable period in that capacity, conse-
quent upon Mr.. Manning's sickness.
MARTIN V. MONTGOMERY, the retiring
Commissioner of Patents, has been ap-
pointed Associate Judge Of the Supreme
Court Of the District of Columbia, in place
Of Judge Macarthur, resigned.
THE EAST.
THE crew OF w. K Vanderbilts new
steam yacht Alva struck at New York the
other morning Fifteen. quit because the
yacht was covered with brass wherever
there was an excuse, and they were kept
polishing that brass all the time.
EDITOR ALFRED, OF Middletown, Conn,
was fined one dollar and confined q day in
Jail for contempt in making publication Of
q coroner's inquest.
EDwERToN 4 WoDDELL, carriage manu-
1acturers, East Brooklyn, N. Y, are in
trouble. 1t is understood they have gone
to Canada.
THE Staynor-Ives party held a conference
with the Rice-Thomas party at New York
on the 29th in relation to the Baltimore &
Ohio purchase. The conference was said
to have been in relation to the Erie road
joining the system which was to operate
the Baltimore & Ohio when the control was
transferred, but no definite particulars
could be obtained.
JOSEPH SoMMERs, who dislocated his neck
last October, died in Brooklyn on the 29th.
His case was remarkable, the fact of living
so long under the circumstances being un-
paralleled.
THE dwelling house Of Matthew Massick
at Ludlowville, ten miles from Ithaca, N. Y,
burned early the other morning, and Mas
sick and his three children persisted in the
flames.
AT a meeting of the Boston Chamber Of
Commerce recently committee was APP
pointed to confer with the trunk line man.
ayers and. if necessary, to appeal to the In
terstate Commission in regard to unjust
discrimination against New England in
freight charges.
THE Pennsylvania railroad has been run
ming local passenger traffic between New
Brunswick, n. j., and Jersey City for the
past few days in cars heated by steam from
the locomotive
THE captain and mate of the schooner
Maria A. Davis were rescued in mid-ocean
March "a and brought to New York by the
bark Scots Bay. Four of the crew had
died of starvation.
GENERAL ROSWELL s. RIPLEY died
from apoplexy while at breakfast in New
York on the 29th. He served in the Con-
federate army and was the officer who di-
rected the fire on Fort Sumter.
The Atlantic Cigar Company Of West
field, Mass. IS accused of infringing the
union label used ON cigar boxes by the CT
garmakers' Union and suit has been begun.
THE Connecticut Senate, by vote of 20
to g. passed the Ten-hour law for women
and children, already passed by the House.
1t is the same as the Massachusetts law.
An amendment exempting mercantile es-
Establishments was rejected by Is to s
An attempt was made the other night at
New York to poison MISS Agnes Herndon,
the actress. A box OF fruit was sent to the
lady and after she had partaken of Q por-
ton Of it she became very sick. It is be-
hevcd to have been the work of q ''crank''
admirer from whom she received q letter
threatening dire results in case she rejected
his suit.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, recently Patrick
Walsh, of New York, adopted the Hebrew
faith, was circumcised and was married to
Lena Levi, . young Jewess, also Of New
York.
An explosion Of gas occurred in the Van
Storck mine Of the Delaware & Hudson
Canal Company at Scranton, Pa, the other
morning. Eight men were injured, two
seriously.
The Western Window Glass Manufac-
turers' Association met at Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the 30th and reafirmed the iron clad
rule regarding the price list. Trade was
reported brisk, with the spring outlook